Caribbean Export is the only regional trade and investment promotion agency in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. We were established in 1996 by an Inter-Governmental Agreement as the trade promotion Agency of the 15 Member States of CARIFORUM.

Caribbean Export supports CARIFORUM firms to develop their businesses specifically for export. Our services include capacity building, technical assistance, access to finance through grant schemes and the provisions of useful information and resources to support businesses to become export ready.

Caribbean Export implements a range of work programme activities designed to support CARIFORUM based companies to export to and penetrate new markets such as the EU. Our export promotion activities assist firms to utilise the benefits of the CARIFORUM-EU EPA.

Caribbean Export is undertaking trade advocacy initiatives for goods and services including collaboration on the development and implementation of a CARIFORUM trade and development programme. Understanding the trade agreements that may regulate your company’s exports is an important pillar in the export development process. Caribbean Export provides technical assistance to companies and entrepreneurs to better understand and take advantage of trade agreements.

Efforts to promote investment encounter unique challenges because of the widely dispersed countries with small populations that make up the Caribbean. Our emphasis is on activities which are best undertaken at regional or sub-regional rather than at national levels as we promote the Caribbean as a prime destination for intra and extra-regional investment.

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The inaugural Regional Investor of the Year Award launched in September 2013 in collaboration with the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA). The awards were designed to highlight the contribution of both local investors within the region and foreign investors to the region. A regional investor is defined as an investor into one or more of the aforementioned territories in the region. These investors are key participants in regional economic growth and their contributions include the creation of job opportunities, adherence to high standards of corporate social responsibility, notable monetary spending and significant fiscal support to economies through the payment of corporate taxes.

The Regional Investor of the Year Award also seeks to recognize investors in strategic areas of importance to the region, e.g. green energy, research and development, projects that involve a high degree of innovation and creativity and those that are championed by women.

The awards presented include: Local Investor of the Year, Foreign Investor of the Year, and a Special Awards based on the assessment of the Evaluation Committee. An overall Regional Investor of the Year is selected from the winners of these categories. The awards serve not only to laud those who, in spite of a challenging economic environment have continued to lend vital support to both burgeoning and established industries in the Caribbean, but to encourage other investors to do the same.

RIYA 2014 – INVESTOR IN THE GREEN ECONOMY

The RIYA 2014 turned its attention this year to the green economy and the region’s efforts at protecting its environment. RIYA 2014 sought to promote investments in initiatives that employ environmentally friendly and sustainable business practices – initiatives that protect the region’s delicate ecosystem – its flora, fauna and human life.